On Feb 28, 2012, at 20:54, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure we are communicating.
>>
>> In the web-as-deployed, partial updates often use the PUT method.
>
> In the Web as defined, standardized, and deployed, those partial
> updates using the PUT method are not interoperable with standard
> HTTP/1.x servers. [...]
> Any software that uses Content-Range in PUT requests is BROKEN.
Thanks, that was part of the input I was looking for.
For the other part of discussion we are having (PATCH vs. idempotence), it would be useful to know what specifically broke when people started using PUT for partial updates. In particular, it would be good to know if the same breakage occurs with an idempotent version of PATCH.
GrÃ¼Ãe, Carsten